Conspiracy theory: old Bernie talked Luca and Schumi into the whole "Michael's back" shenanigan after Renault was kicked out of Valencia - for a price (maybe the return of veto power over technical regulations?). For the ticket sales to hang on, the Schumster had to race. Since he can't, Renault has to be allowed in, or else the public will hunt down and murder everyone in FOM. Opinions?
The result of the appeal was only supposed to be known tomorrow, and the court reasons will only be published in a few days; one gets the feeling it was decided before they got to the court...
CarlosFerreira wrote:Conspiracy theory: old Bernie talked Luca and Schumi into the whole "Michael's back" shenanigan after Renault was kicked out of Valencia - for a price (maybe the return of veto power over technical regulations?). For the ticket sales to hang on, the Schumster had to race. Since he can't, Renault has to be allowed in, or else the public will hunt down and murder everyone in FOM. Opinions?
Agree.
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A race without Alonso or Schumi would have sold less tickets than Istanbul. So Alonso gets to race. Nonetheless, $50,000 is not much of a fine, I'd expected at least a few million dollars.
I smell another conspiracy theory if the fine had been say over $500,000 it may have been the straw to break the camel's back, so to speak. The Fia dont want push Renault into "doing a BMW/Honda".....
Still goes to show that Renault are guilty of something, it just gives the impression that letting stuff fly of the car is not as serious as the stewards at the last grand prix thought it was...
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It was a ridiculous ban in my view in the first place, because I can guarantee you that if Massa had not been hit by the torsion bar from Barrichello's Brawn, Renault would not have been banned. There is no evidence that I have read yet which conclusively proves that they knowingly released Alonso with a wheel which they thought would come off his car, so a fine does make much more sense in my view.
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Romain Grosjean will be replacing Piquet. I'm not sure what happened with Barichello, though. I know Barichello was complaining of bad handling prior to the spring coming off, but other than that, I don't know. He might've clipped something to loosen up that general area, or something, though I struggle to think what that may be.
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